Racial Harmony Day 2011

Racial Harmony Day is a day for schools to celebrate Singapore's success as a nation and society built on a rich diversity of culture and heritage. In schools all across the nation on this day, students are encouraged to be dressed in their traditional costumes. Traditional delicacies are also featured in the celebrations.

In K's school this year, the above is watered down to learning simple salutations in Malay, Tamil, Chinese and English. Each level had to put up a dance by a given racial group. K2s did a Malay dance, K1s a Chinese dance, Playgroup an Indian dance. Nursery was to perform an "English" dance as the teachers put it. Whatever is an English dance? An immediate thought would be the Maypole dance but her teachers decided on hiphop. Guess this MTV generation would be more familiar with that.

Here are the performers all ready for the performance. The guys had their hair done by the teachers.



Nursery class presents hiphop to the school to the song Baby by Justin Bieber, which incidentally is the first pop song that K knows.